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At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Interior design | Reading Level: very good
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Bill Bryson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: very good
What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? How do you spell supersede? Is it hippy or hippie? These questions really matter to Bill Bryson, as they do to anyone who cares about the English language. Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary for Writer ...Show more
Down Under by Bill Bryson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
"It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognisably similar but entirely different." Bill went to Australia and fell in love with the country. The people are cheerful, extrovert and obliging; their cities are safe and nearly always ...Show more
Made in America by Bill Bryson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...In this hymn to the mother tongue Bill Bryson examines how a language 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' has now become the undisputed global language (more people ...Show more
Neither Here Nor There - Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the norther ...Show more
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because h ...Show more
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Featuring an all-new cover, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson's irrevent and hilarious journey through the beloved island nation he called home for two decades. From Downing Street to Loch Ness, this is a delightful look at the United Kingdom.Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrot ...Show more
One Summer - America 1927 by Bill Bryson
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good
One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country--a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capo ...Show more
Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pi ...Show more
The Body - A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functi ...Show more